In 1906, Fred Marriott drove a steam powered vehicle built by the Stanley Brothers to an amazing speed of 127.659 MPH. The sanctioning body for international land speed records at the time was the FIA. Land speed records were measured across a marked mile in a single direction and a single pass. The time was recorded and the record determination was made from the calculations of that time.

Today the FIA is still the sanctioning body and recognizes a land speed record as the average speed of two passes made across a measured distance in opposing directions within 60 minutes of each other. The time of the two runs is then averaged to obtain the official recorded speed.

If one searches the Web for "Steam Car Challenge", as they find is about the British challenge in 2009 that broke the record. We MUST change that and and do it now. I set up a new domain www.steamcarchallenge.com so we can have our own website. What do we want on it to give it the best impact?